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In Israel, Sharon Stone Compares Mideast Peace Process to Going to the Gym

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Sharon Stone is one of several celebrities visiting Israel for Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday celebrations taking place this week.

While in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the actress visited sick children at the Hadassah University Hospital’s Ein Kerem campus. There, she shared with reporters an analogy for the Middle East peace process. It’s like working out at the gym.

Sharon Stone visits a classroom for children hospitalized at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem (Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

“I think there can be peace in the Middle East any minute that you choose to have it. We can have peace in the Middle East now, the minute that we just do it,” Stone said.

“It’s like going to the gym, when do you not want to be fat? Today? When do you want to be in shape? Today? When do you want to stop being mean? How about today?” she added.

Stone, who currently serves as the Global Campaign Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS research and is the cultural chair for YALA, an online organization for Peace in the Middle East, discussed the resonance of the prophet Isaiah’s legacy and what the award personally means to her.

“The prophet Isaiah spoke about existing in the moment of now,” Stone said, speaking to her belief that most world conflicts stem from people who are driven by their fears and are unable to live “in the moment.”

It’s unclear to which verse from the Book of Isaiah she was referring.

One lucky Sharon Stone fan was in the right place at the right time. While visiting Tel Aviv, she bumped into a man wearing a tee shirt printed with the iconic image of the actress crossing her legs in the film “Basic Instinct.” Israeli media report that she graciously stopped to pose for a photo with the lucky guy.

The Times of Israel reports that the photo has been viewed 400,000 times since being posted online on Tuesday. One Reddit user quipped, “… suddenly he never had to change his fb [Facebook] profile pic ever again.”

Here is video of Stone’s comments comparing the peace process to going to the gym and working out: